“My worth is not based on the work of my hands despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am ...”

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, Id be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

“Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.”

“Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that weve engaged in right living, verses believing that living is a right.”

“A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.”

“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.”

“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”

“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”

“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

“When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one...”

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at the birds of...”

“The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opp...”

“If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.”

“Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when ...”